Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like to compete in the Olympics? Well, now you sort of can!

The newest Google Doodle is an Olympic-themed treat: On the google.com homepage (or permanently on this site), you can race in the 110m hurdles, using your keyboard to control a red-uniformed athlete who must sprint to the end of the track as quickly as he can. After you finish, you can share your time to Google+ or compare it to the times of the actual Olympics hurdles competitors, who will be racing in the coming days.

(NOTE: We can only assume that the distance in the Google Doodle Hurdles is, in fact, 110 meters, given that Google's doodle athlete appears to be male: Men run the 110m hurdles, while women race for 100 meters).

Google had previously celebrated the London Olympics with doodles for the javelin, synchronized swimming, pole vault, shot put, table tennis, field hockey, gymnastics, fencing, diving, archery and the opening ceremony. This is, however, the first Google Olympics Doodle that you can actually interact with and play (though we'd love to see what Google could do with dressage).

On January 18, 2012, Google joined Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other sites for a content blackout in protest of proposed Congressional legislation calling for strict enforcement of U.S. copyright law online. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) drew the ire of web users who feared these bills would lead to unchecked web censorship. As a result of the massive protest, key Congressmen who had previously supported the bills reversed their positions; SOPA and PIPA were tabled indefinitely.

The first-ever Google doodle was a simple stick figure behind the second "O" in the logo on Aug. 30, 1998. It represented the founders' recent trip to the Burning Man festival.

On March 1, 2010 Google honored the 366th birthday of Sir Isaac Newton with its first-ever animated Google Doodle.

Google wished users "Happy Halloween" Oct. 31 with a new video doodle that shows a team of crafty Googlers carving six enormous pumpkins to spell out the search engine's name.

On Sept. 24, 2011 Google's homepage featured a medley of Muppets, honoring the 75th anniversary of the birthday of late Muppets creator Jim Henson.
On the interactive logo users could play "puppeteer" by clicking on the colored circles beneath each of the characters, which opened their mouths, and the Muppets followed the cursor with their eyes when you moved your mouse. One of the characters would throw his glasses into the air, and another actually ate a fellow Muppet.

This Google Doodle went live for some on September 4, paying tribute to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who would have celebrated his 65th birthday on September 5.

Google's Oct. 12, 2011 doodle illustration featured a brightly colored interactive tribute to artist Arthur "Art" Clokey, who would have turned 90 on October 12. In place of the company's logo, red, yellow, blue and green balls of clay bounced around and sprang to life at the click of a mouse, in an homage to Gumby, Clokey's best known animated character.

In honor of Pacman's 30th anniversary on May 21, 2010, Google gave its logo over to the iconic arcade game with the first ever playable Google Doodle. The logo had 255 levels.

Google celebrated the 117th birthday of dancer Martha Graham -- known throughout the 20th Century as a pioneer of contemporary dance -- with an amazing animated doodle on July 11, 2011.

Google celebrated what would have been the 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves, creator of the "Little Men" and "Little Miss" series, on May 9, 2011. Google featured a colorful cycle of doodles depicting several of Hargreaves' animated characters, including Little Miss Sunshine, Mr. Tickle and Mr. Messy.

Google celebrated its 13th anniversary on September 27, 2011, with a simple, birthday-themed doodle and a scrapbook-style doodle featuring the company's logo letters dressed in a birthday hats and sitting around presents and a birthday cake. Check out more photos here.

On Mother's Day May 8th, Google tipped its hat to moms everywhere with a spring-themed logo with a purple flower in place of the "L."

Google celebrated the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011 with a Google doodle depicting a festively illustrated panorama of Westminster Abbey, where the royal knot was tied.

On April 22, Earth Day's 41st birthday, Google celebrated the occasion with a colorful animated doodle. Running your mouse over the illustration's playful animal characters brought the scene to life.

On April 16, 2011 Google celebrated what would have been the 122nd birthday of one of film's greatest stars, Charlie Chaplin, with a black and white video doodle.

On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space. Google's commemorative logo was dedicated to Gagarin's flight into space.

Google celebrated what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday on On Oct. 9, 2010 with the first-ever Google Doodle video. The video played a hand-drawn animated version of Lennon's song "Imagine."